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from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Latvian
Judges, Latvian Lawyers, Latvian Legal Academics, Ministers of
Justice of Latvia, Gustavs Zemgals, Jnis akste, Alberts Kviesis,
Mareks Segli, Valrijs Ageins, Valdis Birkavs, Aivars Endzi, Anita
Uacka, Kristine Jarinovska, Juris Sokolovskis, Aivars Aksenoks,
Pteris Juraevskis, Ineta Ziemele, Solvita boltia, Mrti Antons,
Vjaeslavs Stepaenko. Excerpt: Gustavs Zemgals (12 August 1871,
Dkste parish 6 January 1939) was a Latvian politician and the
second President of Latvia. Zemgals was born in Dkste, Latvia. He
attended elementary school in a small parish of Saka, and later
continued education in Riga Nikolai Gymansium. He graduated from
Moscow University in 1899 with a degree in law. He then returned to
Latvia and was a lawyer, a newspaper editor and a political
activist. In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, Zemgals was
mobilised and sent to the front, where he spent a year and a half
and was promoted to the rank of captain. After his return to Latvia
in 1905, Zemgals became one of the creators of a new liberal
newspaper "Jaun Dienas Lapa" (New Day's Page) and proceeded to
become an editor of this paper. He was also an editor in the
newspaper that succeeded "Jaun Dienas Lapa" -"Msu Laiki" (Our
Times). In July 1907, the Riga district court sentenced Zemgals to
a three months long arrest for his work at "Msu Laiki". Soon after
that, Zemgals created the Latvian democratic party together with
some other political activities. In the time period between 1912
and 1914 Zemgals also worked on a magazine "Domas" (Thoughts). When
World War I began, Zemgals was once again mobilised and initially
assigned to an infantry division in the middle part of Latvia, but
later he was sent to Finland. After his return to Riga, Zemgals was
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